Richard Lapchick
Richard Lapchick
Richard E. Lapchick is a human rights activist, pioneer for racial equality, internationally recognized expert on sports issues, scholar and author. He is the son of Joe Lapchick, the original Celtic center who became a coach for St. John's and the New York Knicks. Lapchick is married to Ann Pasnak, his second wife, by whom he has one daughter, Emily. By his first wife, Sandy Miller, he has two children and four grandchildren...
code event guys obviously schools staging understood university whether
Whether or not anything happened, just staging an event like that is a problem. They are representatives of their university and schools have an understood code of conduct, and these guys obviously thought they were going to get away with it and thought it wasn't a big deal. That is unacceptable.
baseball
I think in general, where he has had the influence, baseball has done well.
academics athletics cases finally gap gotten
The most encouraging thing is finally it's narrowing. This is something I've been writing about for so long, and it's been the most discouraging thing about athletics and academics -- that gap has been persistently wide, and has in some cases gotten wider.